San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-02-14
The Face in The Moon,
BY GRAEME MURDOCH.

We had all observed for some time that
Tom Eaton had been unlike himself Origi-
nally goOd-natured sort of chap, without
much facility I'm painting, to be sure, but
with any amount of ambition, he had pleas
ed us all. The one or two sharp criticisms
on his pictures that had been accepted by
the hanging committees and the innumera-
Bile reflections he had sustained at their
hands, seemed at last to have really turned
his temper. He grew blue, sOmber, now
and again gruff, and singularly loquaciOus
on the subject of his art. He would crate
by the hour on theories Of painting, and was
sometimes ingenious if obscure. was talk
ing to Gleason Tower about him one day,
and Gleason, who deals in cauStic speeches,
said: Sum up Tom Eaton, and he is good
example of a limited man with an unlimited
ambition. He was supposed to have great
talent, and started out in life uuder the i'm
preston that he was genius. He lived in
this dream for while; now he is waking to
find he is only an ordinary sort of man like
the rest of us. 1t makes him mad, or If he
Is not mad he soon will be- if he goes about
with his notions and talk"
A week or SO later, Eaton mOnOpOliZed an
evening at the Kit-Kat club by giving us his
new views on art. Art meant only portrait
ure. Everything else from still life m to
landscape was mere accessory. He really
daWdled on with his Thought Though his
words flew fast enough, and / felt as if he
were killing his friendships as glanced
abOut the room and saw numerous indica-
tons of suppressed yawns.
II was 40. Gleason Towner said. "Eaton
has rung his own death-knell. He belongs
in an insane asvIum. not in an art cIubn
81 really think his brain ia cracked. ~ sug-
pested Rob langley tvThev saw he has an
uncle who-n
Bnt some one broke in with tidipgs of a
new model. and we dropped Tom Eaton.
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